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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1988
Page
3
A custody hearing for a Swede suspected in the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme was moved from the courthouse to a guarded police headquarters room for security. The 41 year old identified as Pettersson faces continued interrogation while police build their case amid prior violent crime and a manslaughter conviction.
James Richardson, imprisoned for 20 years in the 1967 deaths of his seven children in Arcadia, asks the Florida Supreme Court for a new trial claiming he was framed. His lawyers allege perjury, suppressed evidence, and possible involvement by sheriff’s allies. Gov. Bob Graham may consider clemency.
In Spokane Washington a former faith healing sect deacon was sentenced to 41 months in prison for failing to obtain medical care for his dying diabetic son. The boy Aaron Norman died at age 10 after a December 20 1987 incident following a discipline session. The case splits moral outrage and religious practice as the judge called the sentencing one of the hardest of his 15 year tenure.
Edward Jones a 34 year old homeless man who escaped a mental hospital six months earlier pushed Ruth Warrington 63 onto a westbound subway in Philadelphia she was struck by the first four cars and left in critical condition Det. Capt Mongelluzzo said Jones was chased captured by an off duty officer and a citizen.
In a gale 26 workers were rescued after the Rowan Gorilla I overturned about 1,200 miles east of New York. The crew rode a sealed survival pod amid 40 foot seas while rescue crews coordinated from Halifax. The lifeboat contained 27 percent Canadians, one American and a Dutch crew member with food and water for days. No injuries were reported and the rig did not sink.
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